Opinion

Sometimes there is a feeling we live in a vacuum in this world, and being on the Canadian Prairies, and in particular Saskatchewan, right now is one of those times.

It has been with great fascination that I've been following developments off the coast of Italy this past week, where one of the largest passenger vessels in the world struck a reef, tearing a giant hole in its side.

Today I'm having a tough day. I just had a phone call telling me that a woman who goes to our church is in the last days of her life. She is fighting cancer and has been a valiant soldier.

Sometimes there is a feeling we live in a vacuum in this world, and being on the Canadian Prairies, and in particular Saskatchewan, right now is one of those times.

Bullying comes in various forms, such as verbal abuse, physical abuse, or coercion. Bullying can come from a single individual, or a group of people. Bullying can occur at school, work, home, or in public places.

OK, so there's a baseball hall of fame and a football hall of fame and one honouring hockey players, one that fetes surfers, another one for the game's best basketball players. And dozens more.

Marna's Musings

Technology is not the sole answer to the provision of more efficient and effective health care. We know that without the human touch, and compassionate human thought, we might as well provide health services with robots.

After years of feasting off problems of past NDP governments in health care, could it be that Premier Brad Wall is now starting to feel the same frustration? The still-relatively young Saskatchewan Party government has had a surprisingly easy ride wh

Much has been written and spoken lately about the sorry state of the Canadian health-care system.